Word: fats
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...orders from you." O'Neill said he had spent more than 40 years fighting for social programs for the poor, and he added: "I didn't become Speaker to strip them." Replied the President, "I don't intend to. We're going to get the fat out." Then he added, "We've got a tough road. I know that...
Tougher than even he may think. His meeting with the leaders was only a prelude to the turbulent battles that will now begin over national priorities-battles between, to take one mighty example, those who want to cut the fat from social programs they feel have not worked well and those who want to search for lard in the military's billions. Carter's State of the Union address and his budget message would serve as the wick to ignite for the congressional session ahead all the contending political factions and the brawling special-interest groups...
...been plagued by inadequate expansion, persistently high unemployment and galloping inflation; indeed last week the Labor Department set the rise in consumer prices for all of 1978 at a full 9%, making it the second most inflationary year in the past three decades.* Why the enormous difference between the fat Sixties and the souring Seventies? Though no single factor can be assigned all the blame, one trend is now being recognized as supremely important: the growth of productivity has slowed sharply in this decade, and since 1976 it has almost stopped...
...special White House working group, headed by Presidential Assistant Anne Wexler, met almost daily to pore over final details. Administration officials briefed hundreds of U.S. farmers, businessmen and labor leaders on the minutiae of U.S.-Chinese relations. Presidential aides issued a fat silver briefing folder in which more-or-less familiar Chinese names were rendered almost unrecognizable in Peking's own Chinese transliteration system: Teng Hsiao-p'ing, for example, became Deng Xiaoping...
...activities at such centers are aimed more at strengthening the cardiovascular system than building muscles. After having their medical history reviewed, taking a series of tests (including a treadmill "stress test"), and having body fat measured, participants are given a set of individual goals. Clients are carefully monitored as they go through their paces...